Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Sci-Fi Movie Tier List
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2024-04-10に共有
Neil deGrasse Tyson takes us through a catalog of some of the most important sci-fi films of the last century, ranks them against each other. Who will end up on the top of the pile? There's only one way to find out...
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0:00 - Introduction
0:09 - The Black Hole
0:58 - The Matrix
2:27 - The Martian
4:09 - The Blob
5:55 - Contact
6:48 - Interstellar
9:19 - Gravity
12:54 - Back to the Future
14:39 - A Quiet Earth
16:48 - Arrival
19:44 - The Europa Report
21:10 - Armageddon
22:20 - Close Encounters of The Third Kind
24:54 - Deep Impact
26:02 - The Day the Earth Stood Still
26:55 - Independence Day
28:58 - The Terminator
32:03 - 2001: A Space Odyssey
33:25 - Closing Notes
コメント (21)
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Which ranking do you disagree with? 🤔
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The Thing, Alien, Aliens, Event Horizon, Predator, Sunshine, Abyss, Blade Runner…? Cmon Neil, lots of gold left in those hills.
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The original Matrix script had the humans being used for cloud computing; it got changed to batteries because the executives thought audiences wouldn’t understand the concept. The directors even explained exactly Neil’s point, but the execs got it their way
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As a former cryptographer and current linguist, I disagree with Arrival needing a cryptographer. A cryptographer deciphers code, but there's much more fine nuance to a language than there is to a code. There are a lot of linguistical concepts conveyed in that film that go beyond the science of cryptography.
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I am VERY surprised that the 1971 "Andromeda Strain" isn't on the list. Hard science fiction doesn't get harder than that.
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Putting Armageddon and Arrival in the same tier sounds criminal to me!
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Arrival comment: They had hundreds or thousands of people involved with alien communication at dozens of sites around the world. We only follow the linguist and physicist. They also had mathematicians and biologists consulting. In the short story, there were hundreds of sites and it implied there were thousands of people involved.
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2001... the cut from the bone thrown in the air to a satellite is one of the best in history.
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About linguists, Stargate SG-1 had a linguist as a main character for most of its 10 yr run.
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John Carpenter's The Thing should get an honorable mention for it's alien depiction and the tension between a small group of scientists when it gets loose.
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Interstellar and Gravity being ranked the equally is unsettling
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"Klaatu barada nikto." In my opinion, the greatest line in any scifi movie.
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let's see part two! {suggestions: Total Recall. Robocop, Forbidden Planet, They Live, Planet of the Apes, Sunshine, Moon,?}
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“Anytime people are fighting each other to look through a telescope, that’s a good day for me”😂 Love it!
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In The Terminator, it's explained that the machines only had fragmentary records about Sarah Connor. They just knew that she would be living in L.A. in 1984, but not what she looked like or an address. Going after her parents presumably was never an option, they wouldn't know where to look.
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Alien, Blade Runner, Aliens, invasion of the Body Snatchers (with Sutherland) , The Thing, Contact, Total Recall, The Terminator, The day the Earth Stood Still (original), Arrival
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On The Matrix, another HUGE plot hole: Why do you even need the matrix. IF you can use humans as batteries (screw thermodynamics), just lobotomize them. An elaborate simulation is in no way needed to harness their thermal output. They should have stuck with cloud computing, would have made so much more sense.
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Putting Arrival on the same tier as Armageddon is WILD.
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About the Terminator. Skynet didn't know which Sarah Connor to target because records of pre war times were mostly destroyed, hence this method
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Stumbled upon this by chance. Really enjoyed the approach to this.Some I liked more than Neil did, and some I liked less, but generally we were close. It was a fun trip watching this. Thanks!
